Colombia residents want Germany to return stone statues

A petition calls on Colombia to request the return of the 35 artifacts to San Agustin. An archaeologist sent them to Germany after World War I ended.

BOGOTA, Colombia — Nearly a century ago, Konrad Preuss did pioneering work in Colombia's most important archaeological zone, called San Agustin. But the German archaeologist also took 35 stone statues back to Germany, and now residents of the southern Colombian region where he worked have mounted a campaign to get them back.

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